Social Media Coordinator (Fixed Term)

HELLO! Magazine; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Birthday day

Private medical scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Life assurance (6x salary)

Generous pension contributions

Group income protection

Perks of a fun media company

Job summary

HELLO! Magazine is looking for a dynamic Social Media Coordinator (Cover Role) to oversee performance across Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube and Snapchat from our London office.

This fixed-term contract lasts four months, with three in-office days weekly (Tue–Thu) and Mondays/Fridays remote. You will post, schedule and optimise content, drive growth and revenue KPIs, and develop platform-specific strategies to boost reach and community engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience leading social strategy for a major media brand or publisher.
• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding social revenue and engagement targets.
• Understanding of monetisation models on Snapchat, YouTube and Facebook.

Responsibilities

• Posting and scheduling across all HELLO! social channels with platform-specific tone.
• Drive growth, engagement and revenue KPIs across major platforms.
• Create and execute platform-specific content strategies to boost reach and followers.

Skills

Monetisation know-how

Storytelling

Organisational skills

Newsroom mindset

Collaborative mindset

Education

Relevant degree desirable

Tools

Dash Hudson

Echobox

Job description

Your mission

HELLO! is looking for a dynamic Social Media Coordinator (Cover Role) to oversee and drive performance across all major social platforms including Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, and Snapchat. This pivotal role requires a creative and data-driven strategist who can deliver audience growth, engagement, traffic and revenue while building vibrant communities around HELLO!'s content.

Please note this a fixed term contract of 4 months. We are in the London office three days a week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with Mondays and Fridays working from home.

Key Responsibilities

• Posting, and scheduling across all HELLO! social channels, ensuring platform-specific tone and optimisation.
• Drive growth, engagement and revenue KPIs across Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube and Snapchat.
• Create and execute platform-specific content strategies to boost reach, followers and community interaction.
• Ensure social content aligns with editorial priorities, commercial goals, and brand values.
• Monitor real-time trends and breaking news, ensuring fast and reactive social coverage in collaboration with the newsroom.
• Use social analytics and scheduling tools - particularly Dash Hudson and Echobox - to optimise performance and reporting.
• Work closely with editorial, video and commercial teams to maximise traffic and monetisation opportunities.
• Continuously analyse social data to inform best practices, testing, and innovation.

Your profile

• Expert understanding of Snapchat, YouTube and Facebook monetisation models.
• Proficient in Dash Hudson and Echobox, with strong analytics and reporting skills.
• Highly creative with a strong sense of storytelling and audience insight.
• Exceptional organisational skills and the ability to juggle multiple responsibilities and deadlines.
• Confident decision-maker under pressure with a reactive, newsroom mindset.
• Collaborative, proactive, and passionate about digital growth and innovation.

Experience

• Proven experience leading social strategy and execution for a major media brand or publisher.
• Demonstrable success meeting or exceeding social revenue and engagement targets.

Qualifications

A relevant degree is desirable but not essential.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave per year (for full time employees)
• 1 birthday day per year
• Private medical scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life assurance currently 6 x salary
• Generous employer pension contributions
• Group income protection scheme
• Plus all the perks of working for a fun media company!

About Us

MISSION STATEMENT

To influence and inspire with relevant, exclusive and entertaining content in a positive, celebratory and kind environment via stringent editorial integrity.

History of Hello

HELLO! is a market-leading lifestyle and celebrity publication, known for its positive and celebratory reporting and unrivalled showbiz exclusives which have been entertaining audiences since 1988.

Over the years, its digital brand has transformed from a small legacy publishing site into an influential global website.

HELLO! is part of the HOLA group, who launched ¡HOLA! magazine in Barcelona in 1944. The husband and wife team of Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón launched the publication with the aim of adding some sparkle to their readers' lives. Always positive,¡HOLA! and HELLO! continue to remain true to the guiding principles of a new type of journalism - always positive, highly visual and celebratory, allowing readers a moment of escape into the worlds of the rich and famous to inspire, brighten and entertain.

With offices in London, New York and Toronto, HELLO! Magazine is now a 24-hour global website, with unique user experiences in our three main audience territories of the UK, US and Canada.

Our readership is more global than that however, with audiences also visiting the site from Australia, India, Europe and all other parts of the world.